Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Makings. The facts that went into the making of this issue were fairly simple. With the coming of the Blue Eagle, plant elections were indicated at Ernest Tener Weir's steel mills at Steubenville, Ohio, Clarksburg and Weirton, W. Va. At the last minute the old National Labor Board issued a new set of election rules which Mr. Weir rejected. Thereupon in December 1933 he held an election of his own which resulted in a thumping victory for Weirton Steel's company union. Disgruntled leaders of Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, an American Federation of Labor affiliate...
Decision. He found against the Government upon both the issues of fact and the issues of law. The Weirton company union, he believed, was acceptable to a "great majority" of the workers. Far from sympathizing with the A. F. of L.'s attempt to organize the Weirton plant, Judge Nields found that its representatives had been guilty of "misrepresentation and threats of the closed shop." Weirton, therefore, had not violated Section...
...Northwestern Barb Wire Co., which had laid their 1935 plans long ago, U. S. Steel's directors authorized its subsidiaries to spend $47,000,000 for new construction and equipment within the year. And Bethlehem Steel announced a new $20,000,000 hot and cold rolled strip plant at its Lackawanna works near Buffalo...
Mesta boasts that the only limit to the size of a machine part that it can turn out is the carrying capacity of any of the three railroads which spur into its West Homestead plant outside Pittsburgh. Castings weighing 165 tons have been poured in its foundries and machined in its shops. One of its prides is a gigantic press built for a Navy armor works that will exert a pressure of 14,000 tons. It has gear nobbing and planing machines for finishing gear wheels up to 17-ft. in diameter...
...fell off. Chairman Samuel M. Vauclain stoutly declared: "I have seen the grass, at times, grow six inches high in the Baldwin Locomotive works. It is not six inches high now. Therefore, why worry?" But the grass had a good chance to grow at the 590-acre Eddystone, Pa. plant in 1932 when Baldwin sold only six locomotives...